Opinion

Editor's note: This is a copy of a letter to local Member of Parliament John Weston. It was forwarded to The Chief for publication.

Fall is my favourite season in the garden. I love to sit back and see how everything grew over the summer.

Travelling through Iran, the locals would joke about the "fashion police." Squads of uniformed men hunted out anything deemed immoral - tight clothes, scarves too far back on the head, tattoos.

The main fundraiser for the Squamish SPCA is the annual Paws for a Cause and Walk and it will be held at the O'Siyam Pavilion area on Cleveland Avenue on Saturday (Sept. 14) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

EDITOR, It is with great sadness I learn the beloved community of Squamish cannot embrace and outdoor event in the "Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada"! The Whistler GranFondo is complete now and after four years still a success, and this has to do

EDITOR, I am sending this comment because I am so tired of the whiners and moaners that come out of the woodwork any time something happens out of the ordinary.

The conversation in the hot tub in Radium went something like this: Young Calgary Woman: Where are you from? Squamish Residents: Squamish. YCW: Squamish! I'd love to live there.

EDITOR, It has been a great start for the salmon in Howe Sound. Even a limited commercial fishery was allowed in, the first of its kind in 50 years.

Years ago, someone suggested to me that research shows: Forty per cent of what we worry about never happens; Thirty per cent has already happened; Twelve per cent focuses on opinions or situations that we cannot change; Ten per cent centres on our he

Pack up the kids, phone your friends and neighbours, and head to the 19th annual Brackendale Fall Fair at the Farmers' Institute Park on Government Road this Saturday (Sept. 7), with gates open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.